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Picture this: You’re working on a client’s website, fine-tuning a new theme you’ve been developing for weeks in WordPress Studio. The design is perfect in your local environment, and you’re ready to push it live using Studio’s sync feature.

But there’s a catch. You only want to deploy the theme. You don’t want to overwrite the plugins already running smoothly in production, and you definitely don’t want your local test content affecting the live database.

If that sounds familiar, you’re not alone. Until now, Studio’s sync feature was all or nothing; you could easily push or pull entire sites between your local environment and WordPress.com or Pressable, but there was no way to sync just part of a site, like a single theme.

That changes today with the release of Selective Sync in WordPress Studio 1.5.5.

Adding granular control

Selective Sync gives you precise control over what gets transferred between WordPress Studio and any connected…